Plowing the dark

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"Mention Richárd Powers's name to other writers and see them get that faraway look in their eyes: They are calculating the eventual reach of his influence." -sven birkerts, ESQUIRE In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast, Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room . . . Adie Klarpol, a skilled but disiIlusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fali of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. As her ex-husband lies dying and the outbreak of computerized war fills her with a sense of guilty complicity, Adie is thrown deeper into building a place of... Tovább

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"Mention Richárd Powers's name to other writers and see them get that faraway look in their eyes: They are calculating the eventual reach of his influence." -sven birkerts, ESQUIRE In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast, Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room . . . Adie Klarpol, a skilled but disiIlusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fali of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. As her ex-husband lies dying and the outbreak of computerized war fills her with a sense of guilty complicity, Adie is thrown deeper into building a place of beauty and unknown power, where she might fend off the incursions of the real world gone wrong. On the other side of the globe, Taimur Martin, an English teacher retreating from a failed love affair, is picked up off the streets in Beirut by Islamic fundamentalists and held in solitary captivity. Without distraction or hope of release, he must keep himself whole by the force of his memory alone. Each infinite, empty day moves him closer to insanity, and only the surprising arrival of sanctuary sustains him for the shattering conclusion. What can possibly jóin two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this wildly inventive növel coalesce into one. Vissza